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  • The troubled spirituality of Krzysztof Kieślowski

    The troubled spirituality of Krzysztof Kieślowski

    If there is one filmmaker that speaks to me on a spiritual level – who is able to connect with my thoughts, frustrations, passions and speak to my deepest fears and regrets – it is Krzysztof Kieślowski, who with his premature death in 1996 left an insurmountable void in the cinematic landscape. Kieślowski’s movies were […]

    Andy Mattioli

    May 4, 2022
    Director, Drama, Foreign
    Drama, Film, Kieślowski
  • The blue-collar swagger of Bruce Willis

    The blue-collar swagger of Bruce Willis

    When at his peak, Bruce Willis was the guy we all knew from somewhere busting people’s heads, sarcastically shrugging his shoulders and smoking a billion cigarettes with that trademark grin of his, the one that suggested his characters were mostly losers with a good heart, losers who, if given the chance, would take one last […]

    Andy Mattioli

    April 3, 2022
    Actor, Comedy, Drama
    Action, Bruce Willis, Drama, Film
  • Mamma Roma: Pasolini’s tribute to motherhood

    Mamma Roma: Pasolini’s tribute to motherhood

    Few artists were able to stir the crowd the way Pier Paolo Pasolini did. The Italian artist from Bologna – who, when asked what people should label him (poet? filmmaker? novelist? revolutionary?), simply replied ‘writer’ as in the one who was put on this earth to chronicle the lives of others, the less fortunate ones, […]

    Andy Mattioli

    March 13, 2022
    Director, Drama, New Wave
    1960s, Drama, Film, Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • Holy Smoke: The power dynamics of Jane Campion

    Holy Smoke: The power dynamics of Jane Campion

    Given the overwhelming success of Jane Campion’s latest movie, The Power of the Dog, which through its world-wide Netflix release managed to find its way into the mainstream and earn 12 Oscar nominations, I decided to look back on what is arguably Campion’s least known work, Holy Smoke; a real oddity in a director’s filmography […]

    Andy Mattioli

    February 18, 2022
    Comedy, Drama
    Comedy, Drama, Film, Jane Campion, Western
  • Badlands: Deconstructing the myth of America

    Badlands: Deconstructing the myth of America

    It’s easy to pinpoint nowadays the moment American cinema began to turn things around in terms of themes and subject matters, when filmmakers let loose their anger and frustration at society as a whole with movies like Bonnie and Clyde and Easy Rider re-inventing the gangster and western genre and adapting it to the times […]

    Andy Mattioli

    January 16, 2022
    Drama, Film, Independent
    Drama, Film, New Hollywood, Terrence Malick
  • The Hand of God: Paolo Sorrentino celebrates family, cinema and perseverance

    The Hand of God: Paolo Sorrentino celebrates family, cinema and perseverance

    Movies can save you. They certainly saved Paolo Sorrentino, the Oscar-winning Italian filmmaker of The Great Beauty. In his latest film, The Hand of God, Sorrentino confronts his own past, a past tied to the city of Naples, Diego Armando Maradona and cinema. For a director whose movies have often revolved around vast themes such […]

    Andy Mattioli

    December 16, 2021
    Comedy, Drama, Family, Film
    2021, Drama, Film, Netflix, Sorrentino, The Hand of God
  • Before Sunset: A recipe for the perfect sequel

    Before Sunset: A recipe for the perfect sequel

    When telling the continuation of a story, movies often find themselves in the awkward position of having to cover all over again past events for those that may not have seen the previous chapter, and simultaneously drive the actual story forward. The whole endeavor can be problematic: juggling too many storylines, subplots and characters tends […]

    Andy Mattioli

    November 28, 2021
    Comedy, Drama, Independent
    Before Sunset, Drama, Ethan Hawke, Film, Julie Delpy
  • About Elly: How mundanity turns into a nightmare

    About Elly: How mundanity turns into a nightmare

    Scary season is upon us, that time of the year when people enjoy being spooked by their favorite movies. Personally, this time around I decided to revisit a film that stopped me in my tracks after first viewing it. It gave me chills despite being a regular drama about regular people. Asghar Farhadi’s About Elly […]

    Andy Mattioli

    October 31, 2021
    Drama, Foreign
    About Elly, Asghar Farhadi, Cinema, Drama, Film
  • Affliction: Paul Schrader and the violence we inherit

    Affliction: Paul Schrader and the violence we inherit

    Paul Schrader, the man who’s been fighting the Hollywood system ever since he got his hands on a pen and paper and wrote Taxi Driver to chronicle his own experience as a depressed and lonely cab driver, is now entering a new phase in his life following the success of 2017’s First Reformed and the […]

    Andy Mattioli

    September 24, 2021
    Dark, Drama, Family
    90s, Drama, Film, Nick Nolte, Schrader
  • The Passenger: Jack Nicholson and Michelangelo Antonioni have an identity crisis

    The Passenger: Jack Nicholson and Michelangelo Antonioni have an identity crisis

    Throughout the 70s and 80s, several Hollywood stars collaborated on projects with some of cinema’s biggest auteurs. Most notably, the likes of Robert De Niro – who, fresh off an Oscar win for Raging Bull, decided to fly out to Rome and work with Sergio Leone (who at that point hadn’t directed a movie in […]

    Andy Mattioli

    August 16, 2021
    Art, Arthouse, Drama, Film, Foreign
    1970s, Drama, Film, Jack Nicholson, Michelangelo Antonioni
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